Local, Sustainably Grown Food...Affects Climate Change Positively

Why should you Eat Local Now? Because Local, Sustainably Grown Food...Affects Climate Change Positively. In this video, Terri Glaberson, who is Executive Director of CoolMom.org, explains how shopping locally and buying food grown as close to home as possible reduces your carbon impact. "Food Miles" are calculated by h...ow far away the food item came from, but you can also include your miles driven to the store and back to purchase it. Buying locally grown food also helps support green jobs (the theme of this year's Eat Local Now! dinner on September 30th).

More information about CoolMom can be found at www.coolmom.org. Find a group close to your home (there are 5 in Seattle presently) and talk to other parents (with or without the kids) about climate change and your personal actions - and get advice on how to reduce your climate impact in your daily life.

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